From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... corporations and
became president of them all.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
2.
... corporations as
personnel men in charge of ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Even greater furors were provoked when
A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when
some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when some became
nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.
3.
... corporations have
set their approval upon us, ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Employers learn that great corporations have set their approval upon us, and wish to discover what can be done
about alcoholism in their own firms.
4.
... corporations, staffs,
committees, and executives -- with a ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
III. To insure effective leadership,
we should endow each element of A.A. -- the Conference, the General
Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives -- with a traditional "Right of Decision."
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